nyc snowboarding
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- joseprieto
So work is getting a bit slower (fucking finally) and I wanna go snowboarding. where is the closest mountain? and where is the best mountain?
can you get a cheap season pass if you are a resident of new york? colorado is like that.
- e-pill0
hunter mountain
- tasty0
hunter (2hrs). no cheap season passes now.
you could also go to Mountain Creek in jersey..it's like 1 hr away.
good for a quick day trip.
- e-pill0
we used to hit this only 7 trails tiny mountain all the time as their black diamonds were perfect drops...
- jbranda0
Hunter is your best bet. Mountain Creek for the day. Killington has a good party crowd in town...I usually go boarding in White Face (Lake Placid) it's a hike, but they usually have good deals during for the midweek, and it a much nicer mountain.
$99 per person per night
Package includes a Room at Lake Placid's Largest and Most Complete Resort Hotel and a Lift Ticket at Whiteface Mountain. Pay for 3 nights on this Package and we will include a 4th night's Lodging and a 4th day of Skiing Free. This Package does not include breakfast.The Crowne Plaza Resort Lake Placid
101 Olympic Drive,
Lake Placid, NY 12946
518-523-2556- i've done this deal a few times, works great, free wifi, fix clients stuff when u get back...big ass mountain, lots of trail options....the town doesn't have much of a party crowd, Killington does!jbranda
- e-pill0
i havent been on the slopes since 1989...
i had a bad accident at sterling forest, i broke my wrist, thumb broke in 4 places, cracked lelft clavicle and tore some ligaments in my shoulder...it was a glorious day though, it was me and 11 others, the weather was 68 degrees and most of the snow was ice and slush, but we were troopers and stupid at the time and all of us fell in the same spot a 45 foot area of just ice, all of us came down on it hard... i was in rehab for 7 months... and then another 4 months of rest...
we used race for that mountain... and that day they lost their entire ski team...
hahaha
oi
i miss sitting in the lodge smoking a joint by the fireplace bonfire and eating nachos and cheese all melted and drinking hot chocolates!!!
i miss the 80s!!!
:)
- Douglas0
most board shops have decent deals on one day bus trips. get on the bus at 2am, sleep while they drive upto vermont, wake up board all day, get back on the bus and back to the city around 11pm.
- joseprieto0
maybe the burton shop in the city? ^
- the city???you live in brooklyn which is in the city... dont be a tourist!!! you live here now!!!e-pill
- NYC IS ALL 5 BOROUGHS!!!!
not just manhattan!!!e-pill - join us jose!!!
or get out!!
move back to florida!! hahahae-pill - ahahahahahahhh for reals nyc all of us!! not just manhattan...
dont be bridge and tunnel!!!e-pill - oh come on! you know what I meant! I live in brooklyn but still.... shit dont hate.joseprieto
- oh haha.. im kidding..
e-pill - try the smaller shops too. i go through Homage in CobbleHill, http://www.homagebro…Douglas
- I think a bus stops by the Paragon Store (union sq) as well.Douglas
- Tungsten0
get a camelback full of whiskey and you'll be gold.
- Tungsten0
come on up to Blue Mountain and we'll show you a good time. It's only a 7 hour drive.
- joseprieto0
thats far now ^
where is that?
- refunktion0
how icy is it, really? like how many days would you go up and just expect to be riding on ice in the NE?
I live in the bay area and ride all over the lake tahoe area, sometimes dealing with the crowds.... how are the crowds up there? like at say... mountain creek or hunter mountain?
- yes, the snow and crowds and mountains are shit compared to the west.Douglas
- chuparosa0
For me, Hunter is too far for a day trip and Mountain Creek is overrun with people. You might want to consider Hidden Valley........
- neue75_bold0
way back in the day I used to go to riding at Bristol Mountain and Holiday Valley... both pretty shit though and still probably quite far from nyc...
- refunktion0
thanks douglas...
im used to mt hood (oregon) crowds (horrid on the weekends) and sometimes crowds at various places in lake tahoe, but i am just wondering if i am going to be ok and get my fix without dealing with ice every time (im consider a move to the east). also... is it like nuts to assume i can have a car in the city? cause i need to get out of it here and there.
- Ashes570
try to get on the Blade bus. that skateshop on broadway runs a bus every week end to hunter departing from few places in NYC. It is cheap and very cool.
- emmaopeel0
I am sorry to say (as a born and raised new englander) that the snow here is almost entirely dependent on el nino years (i.e. one in five are fantastic, the rest are pretty much ice). At least, as a snowboarder, you can have a bit more fun on oddity terrain, and even small mountains have good little spots.
The best in New England is Stowe, hands-down. It is a long ride from New York and Boston, but well worth it for a three day weekend. Otherwise, we used to share a house with a bunch of nyc friends up at Mount Snow (the best deal on a pass is for that set of mountains: Mount Snow, Killington, etc.), but it got pretty old with crowds, conditions, and the nice little flat stretch plunk in the middle of the mountain (no getting around it).
In my older and wiser years, I head out when the weather is good, and otherwise save up vacation for an annual visit to Powder Mountain (which has become much more simple now that I work for myself).
- Some of my best days have been at Stowe. If you're in the east you can't beat Vermont (or Mt Tremblant)Tungsten
